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Friday, June 30, 2017

Sneaking in under the wire for the Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop! Thank you Amy for organizing this yet again :) Love looking at all the wonderful creations!

I used this week's Freshly Made Sketch for my card and Verve's Coffee Helps. I love lattes so this sentiment is a go to for me :) Coloured with Twinkling H2Os and needed to ground the latte cups so added a daisy chain border to to bottom of the focal panel.

Thursday, June 15, 2017

Middle of June and time for a new Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge. With Summer comes the need for a bit of cooling down, and this picture has me craving sorbet now LOL! Since I don't own any ice cream stamps, I went for the look alike cupcake {grin}.

Used last week's Case This Sketch #225 for my card, pulled the colours from the photo and tossed some polka dots in for good measure :)

Monday, June 5, 2017

Today, we are celebrating 500 Mojo Mondaysketches!! To put that in perspective, that means Julee has been creating fabulous sketches for us just shy of ten years!! Sadly, this will be the last Mojo sketch.....sniff, sniff... :( Be sure to pop on over to the Mojo Monday blog to read her post.

I have a big lump in my throat and a big hole in my heart right now....but at the same time am celebrating with her as she can now dabble in other things with her extra time each week. Needless to say, I am very thankful for my Mojo Monday sketch binder to be able to go back to.

Out of curiosity, I dug back through my Splitcoast Stampers account (I was on there for a few years before I started my blog) to see which Mojo sketch was the first one I participated in, and found it was sketch #39 during her first year of sketches when the challenge was still run off her personal blog. This is the card I made using that sketch and is a tribute to where it all began.

Mojo sketch 120 was my first sketch win for a free Verve Stamps set, followed by four finalist positions, and then that fabulous day, August 6, 2012, when I posted my first card for sketch #263 as a Mojo Maker. This card brought back memories and made me laugh as I was having a strong, love/hate relationship with skewed panels at the time and as fate would have it, this was the first sketch I had to deal with LOL! Btw, I now love skewed panels {grin}.

To say I have enjoyed the past 9 years of Julee's sketches is an
understatement. It has remained my favorite challenge over the years, and I will miss it dearly. Thank you Julee for blessing card makers all over blogland with your amazing sketches! As the sentiment says on my card, you are a beautiful soul indeed, and I thank you for the honor of being a Mojo Maker ((hugs)) ♥♥♥

All the challenge details are over on the Mojo Monday
blog and you can also view all the wonderful Mojo Makers samples.
Should you wish more details on the Mojo Maker's cards, you can also
visit their individual blogs noted below.

A huge thank you to those of you who have been faithful participants in the challenge and who have left me so many lovely comments on my Mojo Monday posts over the years. And, to Teresa Kline for all her behind the scenes work.

Would love to have you join us by creating a card and linking it to the
challenge! In honor of sketch number 500, I would love to see 500 cards
in the gallery, so please come an play along :) The challenge is open for two weeks so lots of time to get crafty.

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All content, including text, photos, and designs, are the property of Marisa Ritzen. I don't mind if you case or share my artwork for your personal use, however, content may not be copied for contest submission or publication. Thank you!